Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-14

usefulness, and when the clock strikes th
: hour you cannot make your appearance
Perhaps the trouble is between the ear an
forehead, in the shape of neuralgi
twinge. Nobody can see it or sympathiz
with you: but just ut the time when yo,
want your intellect clearest, and your dis
position brightest, you feel a sharp, keen
disconcerting thrust. The Lord sent tn
hornet.
Perhaps these small insect annoyance
will come in the shape ola
DOMESTIC IRRITATION.
The parlor and the kitchen do not al
ways harmonic. To get good service ant
to keep it is one Of the great questions o
the country. Sometimes it may be the ar
rogancy and inconsiderateness of employ
ers; but whatever be the fact, we all admi
there are these insect annoyances wipgin.
their way ont from the culinary depart
ment. If the grace of God be not in tn,
heart of the housekeeper she cannot main
tain her equilibrium. The men come HON,
at night and hear the story Of these annoy
ances, and say, 80! these home trouble'
are very little things" They are small
small as wasps, but they sting. Martha''
nerves were all unstrung when she rushed
in asking Christ to reprove Mary, and there
are tens of thousands of women who ar,
dying, stung to death by these pestiferou:
domestic annoyances. The Lord sent the
hornet.
These small insect disturbances may alsC
come in the shape of business irritations
There are men here who who went through
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their balance, who are every day unhorsed
by little annoyances-a clerks i'll manners
or blot of ink on bill of lading, or the
extravaganza of q partner who oyerdraws
his account, or the underselling of bust,
ness rival, or the whispering of business
condolences in the street, or the making Of
some little bad debt which was against
your judgment, just to please somebody
else. 1t is not the panics that kill the
merchants. Panics come only once in ten
or twenty years. 1t is the constant din OF
these every day annoyances which is send,
ing so many of our best merchants into
dyspepsia and paralysis and the grave.
When our national commerce fell fiat upon
its face, these men stood up and felt almost
defiant; but their life is giving way now
under the swarm of these pestiferous an
noyances. The Lord sent the hornet.
| have noticed in the history of some of
my congregation that their
ANNOYANCEs ARE MULTIPLYING,
and that they have hundred where they
used TO have ten. The naturalist tells us
that wasp sometimes has family of
twenty thousand wasps, and it does seem
as if every annoyance of your life bread n
million. BY the help of God to-day want
to show you the other side. The hornet is
of no use? o, yes. The naturalists tell
us they are very important in the worlds
econonomy; they kill spiders and they clear
the atmosphere; and | really believe God
sends the annoyance of our life upon us
TO kill the spiders of the soul and TO clear
the atmosphere of our skies. These an
noyances are sent on us, think, to wake
MS up from our lethargy. There is nothing
that makes man so lively as nest Of
yellow jackets" and think that these
annOyances are intended to persuade us Of
the fact that this is not world for
us to stop in. If we had a bed of
everything that was attractive and
soft and easy, what would we want of
heaven? You think that the hollow tree
sends the hornet, or yOu think the devil
sends the hornet ! want to correct your
opinion. The Lord sent the hornet
Then | also think these annoyances
come upon us to culture our patience. In
the gymnasium you find upright parallel
bars-bars with holes over each other for
pegs to he put in. Then the gymnast
takes peg in each hand and he begins to
climb, one inch ut "a time, or two inches,
and getting his strength cultured, reaches
after awhile the ceiling. And it seems to
me that these annOyances in life are a
moral gymnasium, each worry peg by
which we are to climb higher aud higher
in Christian attainment. We all love to
see patience, hut it
CANNOT BE CULTURED IN FAIR WEATHER..
1t is n child of the storm. If you had
everything desirable and there was moth
ing more to get, what would you want
with patience? The only time to culture
it is when you are slandered and cheated,
and sick and half dead. ''Oh," you say,
"if only had the circumstances of some
weIl-to-do man | would he patient too"
You might as well say, ''If it We're not for
this water ] would swim;" or IL could
shoot this gun if it were not for the caps"
When you stand chin-deep in annoyances
is the time for you 10 swim out toward the
great hcadlands of Christian attainment,
and when your life is loaded to the muz-
zle with repulsivc annoyances-thati is the
time to draw the trigger. Nothing but
the furnace will ever burn out of us the
.l II. I hnp
theory in regard TO small annOyances and
vexatiOns: 1t takes Just 80 much trouble
10 fit us for usefulness and for heaven.
The only question is, whether we shall
take il In the bulk, or pulverized and
rranulated. Here is one man who takes
II in the bulk. His back is broken, or
his ryesight put out, or some other
awful calamity befalls him; while
the vast majority of people take the thing
piecemcal. Which way wOuld rather have
il? OF course in pieceme.l. Better have
five aching teeth than one broken jaw
Better ten fy-blisters than one amputa-
ting. Better twenty squalls than one cy-
clone. There may he a difierance OF
opinion rs to allopathy and homeopathy
but i'm this matter Of trouble like hoIneo-
pathic doses-small pellets of annoyance
rather than some knock-down dose OF cal
amity. Instead of the thunderbolt give us
the hornet. If you have a bank you
would great deal rather that fifty men
should come in with checks less than a
hundred dollars than to have two deposit
ors come in the same day each wanting his
ten thousand dollars In this latter case,
Won cough and look down at the floor and
up at the ceiling before you look into
the safe. Now my friends,
WOULD YOU NOT RATHER
have these small drafts Of annoyance on
your bank of faith than some all-stagger-
ing demand upon your endurance? !
want To make you so strong, that you will
not surrender TO small annoyauces. In
the village Of Hamelin, tradition says,
there was an invasion of rats, and these
small creatures almost deyOured the town
ard threatened the lives of the popula-
lation, and the story is that piper came
out one day and played very sweet tune,
and all the yermin followed him-foilow-
ed him to the banks OF the Weser: and
then he blew blast and they dropped in
and disappeared forever. OF course this Is
80 ...;.h no1ld IN the sweet